GAY MEN’S BOOK CLUB (2025)

Rotterdam Film Festival
Focus Program: Matthew Lax
January 30 - February 9, 2025

The official GMBC website can be accessed here.

The experimental nonfiction film and installation Gay Men’s Book Club brings together seven homosexuals, all almost strangers to one another, to discuss the book Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Based on an actual book club Lax participated in, these unscripted conversations, facilitated by the artist in collaboration with community organizer, founding member of the Radical Faeries, and Jungian psychologist Dr. Don Kilhefner, explores Táíwò’s concept of elite capture as it relates to community, privilege, organizing, and intersectionality. GMBC is an intergenerational portrait of the group dynamics found within social environments.

GMBC is commissioned by Prospect Art, with support from Los Angele Contemporary Exhibitions and the Andy Warhol Foundation.